Recaps

Ye Qingxian and her family arrived at the Ascension Platform, where two families were fighting over control of it. After Ye Qingxian explained that the declining world had an Upper Realm and that ascending was possible, she and her companions departed, leaving the cultivators stunned and speculating about their identities and relationships.

• Ye Qingxian, Junior Sister, and the three girls arrived in the middle of the Lin Family and Zhang Family's dispute over the Ascension Platform.
• The assembled cultivators recognized the group as Outsiders from Beyond the Heavens and bowed to Ye Qingxian.
• A young girl asked Ye Qingxian whether the Upper Realm existed and whether ascending was still possible.
• Ye Qingxian explained that Spiritual Energy was scarce and the ley lines were exhausted, then confirmed that ascending was not a scam and that an Upper Realm existed.
• Ye Ranxing claimed that they came from an Upper Realm far beyond the Upper Realm, and I silenced her before the group continued on.
• After the visitors left, the cultivators discussed their overwhelming power, and a middle-aged man concluded that the two women were Dao Companions and the five were a family.

Ye Zhaoxuan returned to Blue Star with Ye Qingxian and their daughters to search for the place she remembered as home. Ye Qingxian narrowed the search to twenty-three possible river locations and promised to check them all in a day.

• Ye Zhaoxuan saw that Blue Star had changed into a modern metropolis and wondered whether she had grown up in the countryside or a small-town Welfare Institute.
• Ye Qingxian took Ye Zhaoxuan and the children to a rooftop, where she surveyed Blue Star and projected possible locations for Ye Zhaoxuan to inspect.
• Ye Ranxing asked to visit the amusement park they had passed, and Ye Zhaoxuan promised to take the family sightseeing after finding her relatives.
• Ye Zhaoxuan narrowed the possible homes to twenty-three riverside locations, and Ye Qingxian said she could take her to all of them in a day.

The narrator left her three daughters at home with Ye Qingxian’s defensive formation and went out alone with Ye Qingxian, who grew flustered when they held hands. The narrator then asked Ye Qingxian to retrieve a special tree from Supreme Heaven, leaving her frozen in shock.

• The narrator and Ye Qingxian left the three daughters at home with snacks, a television series, and an automatic defensive formation.
• Ye Ranxing and Ye Zhaoxuan argued over the remote until Yangyang intervened, prompting Ye Zhaoxuan to reflect and Ye Ranxing to comfort her.
• Ye Qingxian let the narrator interlock their fingers before snapping out of her daze and pulling her hand away.
• The narrator noticed Ye Qingxian’s increased favorability and asked her to bring a meaningful tree from Supreme Heaven when they returned.
• Ye Qingxian went stiff and silent at the request, and the narrator asked why she had stopped responding.

Ye Qingxian and her Junior Sister wandered through the human world, sharing candied hawthorn and teasing each other as Ye Qingxian tried to keep her from noticing the missing Ginkgo Tree and attracting a delinquent's attention. The Junior Sister wondered whether she should buy shoes, and Ye Qingxian told her she drew stares whether she wore any or not.

• Ye Qingxian lied about the Ginkgo Tree, then reluctantly agreed to bring it home when her Junior Sister reminded her.
• The Junior Sister bought candied hawthorns and ate one, while Ye Qingxian watched her with growing affection.
• When a blond-haired delinquent rode past on a motorcycle, Ye Qingxian blocked her Junior Sister's view and hurried her along.
• Ye Qingxian recalled her Junior Sister's claim that she was straight, and the Junior Sister blushed, admitted she might have lied, and clung to Ye Qingxian.
• The Junior Sister decided she would save her candied hawthorn and bring snacks back for the babies.
• The Junior Sister noticed she was barefoot and asked whether she should buy shoes, and Ye Qingxian told her everyone would stare at her either way because she was beautiful.

Ye Qingxian and Junior Sister spent a day traveling together as they searched for Junior Sister’s family, while Junior Sister clung to the hope that her parents had lost her by accident. Ye Qingxian anticipated that the truth would hurt Junior Sister, but wished she could find a gentle path to learning her origins.

• Ye Qingxian asked Junior Sister her shoe size, and Junior Sister became upset when the cashier recommended children's shoes.
• Ye Qingxian reassured Junior Sister that the recommendation was meant as a compliment, then admitted she was not attracted to women despite having once loved one.
• Ye Qingxian and Junior Sister traveled across many places while searching for Junior Sister's family and enjoyed their time together.
• Junior Sister asked whether she could find her parents and whether they might have lost her by accident.
• Ye Qingxian feared that Junior Sister would face a painful truth about her origins, but hoped the search would lead her to a kinder ending.

Ye Xiaoyao and Ye Qingxian searched rivers from Ye Xiaoyao’s memories, but none seemed familiar until the eighteenth river awakened memories of a girl who had called her Mei Bao and become her big sister. Ye Xiaoyao struggled to hold on to the painful memories, wondering whether they had blurred because she left without saying goodbye.

• Ye Qingxian guided Ye Xiaoyao to several rivers, but Ye Xiaoyao could not recognize any of them and admitted she could barely see.
• Ye Qingxian let Ye Xiaoyao rest against her and offered candy and a cultivation-world hot-water bottle, while Ye Xiaoyao reflected on how much she relied on her Senior Sister.
• At the eighteenth river, Ye Xiaoyao recognized a scene from her past and remembered a girl calling her Mei Bao, catching fish for her, and offering her grilled fish.
• Ye Xiaoyao remembered the girl declaring herself Mei Bao’s big sister, then crouched in pain as she tried to recover the fading memories.
• Ye Xiaoyao wondered whether her forgotten past was connected to leaving that big sister without a word when she went to Supreme Heaven with Ye Qingxian.

Mei Bao relived her early days with Cai Die, who patiently cared for her despite believing she could not speak or understand much. The memory revealed Mei Bao’s True Spirit had not yet awakened, and she returned to the riverside where the next memory awaited.

• Cai Die taught the silent Mei Bao simple words and decided to keep raising her in a secret base.
• When Cai Die failed to bring food, Mei Bao left the base and found Cai Die being beaten by a drunken man for stealing eggs to feed her.
• Mei Bao spoke her first indistinct word, and Cai Die pushed the man down, escaped with her through a window, and took her back to the secret base.
• Cai Die realized Mei Bao could speak but struggled to understand complicated speech, and Mei Bao understood that her True Spirit had not yet awakened at the time.
• The memory ended, and Mei Bao stood beside the river in her skirt as the surrounding scene remained unchanged.

Ye Qingxian reconstructs the memories of the secret hideout, revealing that Cai Die once cared for the young Junior Sister and later left for the Upper Realm. As Junior Sister and Ye Qingxian uncover another memory, they hear voices discussing the birth of a rare-colored kitten.

• Junior Sister tells Ye Qingxian she remembers an older sister who adopted her as a child, then calls Ye Qingxian her lover.
• Junior Sister and Ye Qingxian return to their old hideout, where Ye Qingxian reconstructs a memory of Cai Die taking care of Junior Sister and Junior Sister kissing Ye Qingxian’s cheek.
• The reconstruction shows Cai Die saying she had searched for Junior Sister, then went to the Upper Realm to grow strong enough to rescue her.
• Ye Qingxian explains that she gradually inferred her own importance from others’ reactions, while keeping secret that her destined cause and effect had been disrupted.
• Junior Sister cleans the hideout and lies down to recover more memories, revealing a scene of two adults wondering why their newborn kitten has unusually rare fur.

The narrator remembered being born as a rare pink-and-white kitten named Little Little before exhaustion overtook her. Ye Qingxian carried her sleeping Junior Sister through the passage and promised to stay by her side.

• The narrator recalled her Cat parents marveling at her unusual appearance and naming her Little Little.
• After overexerting herself, the narrator became dizzy and weak while Ye Qingxian guarded her.
• The narrator asked Ye Qingxian to carry her back, and Ye Qingxian lifted her into her arms.
• The narrator fell asleep against Ye Qingxian and asked her to carry her steadily.
• Ye Qingxian patted the narrator's back and promised to stay with her, unaware of her changing feelings.

Ye Qingxian let Junior Sister sleep in her arms, while Yangyang realized the toy Ye Ranxing was cuddling had been made from her own cat fur and still carried her milky scent. Yangyang ended the chapter mortified and determined to keep her secret from her little sisters.

• Ye Qingxian sat on a bench with the sleeping Junior Sister in her arms, covered her legs with her coat, and tucked her hand beneath it.
• Yangyang sniffed the stuffed toy her mother had made and recognized that it was made from her cat fur.
• Yangyang smelled the same fur on the rabbit Ye Ranxing was hugging and realized her little sister could discover her lingering milky scent.
• Yangyang considered taking the rabbit back but refrained because it was a gift from their mother to Ye Ranxing.
• Yangyang rolled around on the sofa, embarrassed and worried that her sisters would learn the fur and scent were hers.

Ye Qingxian and her little junior sister spent a tender afternoon together before deciding to visit the Welfare Institute and the place where the junior sister’s parents had abandoned her. The junior sister hoped those locations would restore the memories needed to uncover the truth about her origins.

• Ye Qingxian sat with her eyes closed while her little junior sister pretended to sleep in her arms.
• The junior sister deliberately brushed Ye Qingxian’s leg, and Ye Qingxian realized she had been awake.
• Ye Qingxian got her little junior sister to sit up by reminding her that her three babies needed food.
• The junior sister held Ye Qingxian’s sleeve and asked to visit the Welfare Institute and the place where her parents had abandoned her.
• The junior sister said those two places might help her recover the memories that could reveal her origins.

Ye Qingxian learned that people had bullied her Junior Sister at the Welfare Institute and tried to investigate, but discovered that all of them were already dead. She then invoked Wuya Sect’s rules to threaten to punish her Junior Sister for speaking as if simply being alive were enough, leaving her with a thick rulebook to read.

• The narrator showed Ye Qingxian the abandoned Welfare Institute where she had lived and recalled being bullied as a child.
• Ye Qingxian angrily used the Method of Deduction and Regression to find the people who had bullied her Junior Sister.
• Ye Qingxian discovered that none of the bullies had survived, and she agreed to let the matter rest despite remaining furious.
• Ye Qingxian declared that her Junior Sister was not allowed to demean her own life and threatened physical punishment under Wuya Sect’s rules.
• The narrator asked to learn the rules, and Ye Qingxian handed her a very thick book.

Ye Qingxian and her Junior Sister traveled to the mountains where the Junior Sister believed she had been born, and the Junior Sister fainted while diving into her memories. As Ye Qingxian cared for her, painful memories and feelings surfaced, and she resolved not to hurt her Junior Sister again.

• The Junior Sister recalled Cai Die helping her at the Welfare Institute and said there were no other memories from that period.
• The Junior Sister removed her hair tie and recognized the mountains ahead as the likely place of her birth.
• The Junior Sister closed her eyes to search her memories and fainted, so Ye Qingxian caught her in her arms.
• Ye Qingxian moved the Junior Sister's hand away from her clothes and remembered asking how far apart two people had to be to become strangers after kissing.
• Ye Qingxian endured a surge of pain, regained her composure, and decided she could not hurt her Junior Sister again.

Little Little was born to two ordinary cats, but she stayed palm-sized despite nursing and her parents’ efforts to help her grow. As her mother began teaching her survival skills, Cat father left alone for the depths of the mountains after making a firm decision.

• Cat mother and Cat father welcomed Little Little and cared for her as she learned to groom, nurse, and crawl.
• When Little Little remained tiny after a month, Cat father went into the mountains to find a nursing doe and returned injured after encountering a Great Yao.
• Even after six months, Little Little had barely grown, and Cat mother worried over her while Cat father silently considered the mountain rumors.
• Cat mother began teaching Little Little how to survive by showing her how to climb trees.
• Cat father left his wife and daughter behind and walked into the shadows of the mountains.

Cat father risked his life to seize the legendary Spirit Grass from five Great Yaos and returned to his family mortally wounded. His daughter watched him collapse beneath the setting sun, remembering the love and care he had given her.

• Cat father raced into the Sunset Mountain Range, hoping to find the Spirit Grass and save his daughter.
• As five Great Yaos fought beside the pond, Cat father darted past them and grabbed the newly ripened Spirit Grass.
• Cat father unleashed his dark bloodline, endured the five Great Yaos' attacks, and escaped with the Spirit Grass, losing a foreleg and suffering grievous wounds.
• Cat mother and their daughter waited by their cave, and Cat father limped home with the Spirit Grass in his mouth.
• Cat father collapsed as he tried to reach his daughter, who cried out to him while he lay dying.

Little Little recovered her memories and learned that her cat parents had loved her and never truly abandoned her. After waking, she begged Ye Qingxian to help her find her mother, and Ye Qingxian promised to stay by her side.

• Little Little remembered Cat father's death and how Cat mother comforted and raised her alone.
• Cat mother gave Little Little the Spirit Grass, which transformed her into a human girl, and taught her not to speak Cat language around others.
• Unable to feed her daughter, Cat mother left Little Little beside a highway and returned to the Sunset Mountain Range after arranging for humans to find her.
• Little Little awoke from the memories, told Ye Qingxian she had always been a cat loved by her parents, and begged her to help find Cat mother.
• Ye Qingxian comforted Little Little and promised to accompany her wherever she wanted to go.

Ye Qingxian comforted Little Little as she grieved for her father, and Little Little cried herself unconscious. Ye Qingxian brought her home to rest, cared for her daughters, and cooked dinner while deciding to prepare medicine for Little Little.

• Little Little told Ye Qingxian she no longer wanted the Humanoid Transformation Grass and begged her to bring her dad back, then broke down sobbing.
• Little Little collapsed unconscious from grief, so Ye Qingxian carried her back to Great Peace City instead of going to the Sunset Mountain Range.
• Ye Qingxian tucked Little Little into bed, then cooked while Ye Zhaoxuan and Ye Ranxing woke and kept watch beside their mother.
• Yangyang asked Ye Qingxian about Little Little, and Ye Qingxian explained that she needed to rest after grieving and crying.
• Ye Qingxian checked Little Little's pulse, found her still weak, gave her a pill, and joined her three daughters for dinner.

Ye Qingxian accompanied the Junior Sister to the Sunset Mountain Range as she searched for her mother and asked whether her father could have survived. Ye Qingxian’s divination produced an auspicious result, leaving them with hope that the search might succeed.

• Ye Qingxian checked on the Junior Sister, who said she was trying to accept her identity and keep going because she still had her mother and friends.
• As they traveled toward the Sunset Mountain Range, the Junior Sister asked whether the dead could return to life, and Ye Qingxian explained that it was extremely difficult.
• The Junior Sister asked about demon cultivators taking human form and how long an ordinary Tricolor Cat Demon might live; Ye Qingxian suggested her mother could still be alive if she had cultivation.
• Ye Qingxian and the Junior Sister entered the Sunset Mountain Range at dawn, and Ye Qingxian used divination to assess their journey.
• Ye Qingxian received an auspicious result and concluded that there was still a chance they would find what they sought.

Ye Qingxian and her Junior Sister searched the Sunset Mountain Range for a thirty-year-old, tri-colored Cat Demon and asked Cang Yun, the Demon Race’s only Core Formation cultivator, for help. As Ye Qingxian held her Junior Sister’s hand, Cang Yun prepared to answer her questions.

• Ye Qingxian explained that the Sunset Mountain Range held the Lower Realm’s last Demon Cultivators, and she comforted her Junior Sister after a stone accidentally struck her head.
• Ye Qingxian promised she would punish her Junior Sister if necessary, including if she tried to date Blondie.
• Cang Yun meditated beside a Spiritual Spring and recognized Ye Qingxian and her Junior Sister as possible outsiders from beyond the heavens.
• Ye Qingxian took her Junior Sister’s hand and asked Cang Yun whether he had seen a thirty-year-old tri-colored Cat Demon around the Foundation Establishment Realm.

The little girl and Ye Qingxian questioned Cang Yun about a tricolor Cat Demon, and his memories revealed a possible link to the girl's parents. After hearing how the Cat Demon struggled to care for her daughter, the girl defended her mother, leaving Cang Yun to realize the Little Princess might have been born in the lower realm.

• Cang Yun recalled that twenty-three years earlier, a cow cat had taken Humanoid Transformation Grass from his spiritual spring and seemed to perish afterward.
• The little girl burst into tears at the news, and Ye Qingxian comforted her while Cang Yun feared he had offended the Little Princess.
• The girl reassured Cang Yun, gave him spirit stones, and asked him to tell everything he knew about the cow cat and his Dao Companion.
• Cang Yun said the cow cat had moved to the Sunset Mountain Range thirty-five years earlier and that his tricolor Dao Companion later hunted alone despite being weak and often wounded.
• The girl insisted the tricolor Cat Demon had only been trying to care for her young daughter, prompting Cang Yun to suspect the Little Princess had been born in the lower realm.

Ye Xiaoyao learned that her mother had left the Sunset Mountain Range to search for her, and she and Ye Qingxian set out to find her. The chapter ended with her aged mother carrying a portrait in Moon City, where a thug prepared to snatch it.

• Ye Xiaoyao told Cang Yun that her parents were the Tricolor Cat and the Cow Cat and explained that Supreme Heaven was a fifth-level world.
• Cang Yun described the Tricolor Cat's disappearance from the Sunset Mountain Range twenty-two years earlier, and Ye Qingxian took Ye Xiaoyao to investigate.
• Ye Qingxian used retrospection at the mountain range's edge and saw that the Tricolor Cat had left six months after Ye Xiaoyao departed.
• Ye Xiaoyao struggled with the thought that her mother had searched for her for more than twenty years, and Ye Qingxian urged her to keep looking.
• In Moon City, the aged Tricolor Cat entered a restaurant carrying a portrait, was chased out, and attracted the attention of a thug who planned to take it.

An elderly Tricolor Cat escaped a thug at a snack shop and brought her treasured sketch of her daughter to a quiet alley. With only a year and a half left to live, she longed to find Little Little and see her once more.

• A thug cornered the old Tricolor Cat at a snack shop, but a female university student intervened and let her escape with the paper in her mouth.
• The Tricolor Cat took winding routes to an unattended trash can, reflecting that her age and failing cultivation left her close to death.
• She unfolded a rough sketch of a young girl and remembered that twenty-two years had passed since she lost her daughter, Little Little.
• After searching countless places without finding her daughter, the Tricolor Cat realized she had at most a year and a half to live and wished to see Little Little again before she died.

Ye Qingxian retraced the Tricolor Cat’s pawprints, letting the narrator witness her mother’s desperate search for her across the human world. The narrator confronted the depth of her mother’s pain and asked Ye Qingxian to continue to the next place.

• Ye Qingxian promised to shorten the search to three days after the narrator urged her to hurry.
• The narrator and Ye Qingxian bickered over the narrator’s childhood nickname, and Ye Qingxian agreed to indulge her Junior Sister.
• Ye Qingxian showed the narrator memories of her young mother setting out along highways to find her daughter.
• Ye Qingxian brought the narrator to the first city her mother had reached after leaving the Sunset Mountain Range.
• The narrator imagined her mother’s despair and, concealing her pain behind a calm voice, asked Ye Qingxian to take her to the next place.

Little Little watched memories of her Tricolor Cat mother searching for her across the lower realm and was overwhelmed by grief and rage. After kicking the shopkeeper who had once kicked her mother away, she sensed that her mother urgently needed her and headed toward Moon City.

• Little Little watched her mother spend years asking animals and humans for news of her, carrying a crude portrait and enduring repeated rejection.
• Little Little saw the shopkeeper kick her mother away again in the memories and erupted with Killing Intent.
• Little Little went to the shop and kicked its owner three times, saying he had broken the rules of the Cat Realm by hurting her mother.
• Ye Qingxian accompanied Little Little as she continued searching for her mother.
• In Moon City, the old Tricolor Cat cautiously peered into an empty trash can after hiding her portrait in a cardboard box.

Cat mother scavenged for food and fought off a rival while longing for her daughter, as I and Ye Qingxian continued searching for her. During a milk tea break, I kissed Ye Qingxian’s cheek to thank her, leaving her stunned.

• Cat mother took a fish head from a trash can, remembered her daughter, and drove a tabby cat away from her territory.
• Cat mother ended her search for the day and curled up in a tree, worn down and no longer able to groom herself.
• I asked Ye Qingxian how soon she could find Cat mother, and Ye Qingxian said she needed at most another day.
• Ye Qingxian insisted that I buy milk tea for myself, and we shared a drink during a pause in her search.
• I kissed Ye Qingxian’s cheek and explained that it was a reward for helping me look for my mother, leaving Ye Qingxian rigid with surprise.